Bad, and Totally Aspie Incident in Court

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Well I was in court the other day over a landlord and tenant dispute, and something kind of bad happened.

I was questioning the defendant (I was one of the plaintiffs) really hard, and the Judge kept sending me signals that he had heard enough and that he was on my side, but I failed to recognize them at the time and kept asking questions, which pissed him off. Then one of my co-plaintiffs sent me a note that said "Sit Down!! !". When you are questioning someone in court, you stand and do it. I mis-interpreted it to mean "sit down and continue asking questions", so I just gave my co-plaintiff a weird look and kept right on asking. Finally my mom, whom was just watching, whispered "Shut up!! !" in my ear, and I finally stopped.

Luckily, we still won the case, and I won more than I had hoped for (an extra thousand dollars...take that you damn landlord!! !), but I normally am pretty good about watching social cues. This is the first time that I'm aware of since my childhood where I have mis-interpreted so many different things in a row like that.... I could have blown the case

So yeah, this thread is just for people to post similar experiences to mine.

Well a couple of weeks back one of the clients for the company I worked for apparently left and forgot his PDA. Being the systems administrator for the facility it was brought to me to get the owners information from and to hold on to until the person came back for it.

In the process of retreiving the owners information I found that the keypad didnt work. I figured it was probably just a loose connector so I shrugged and set it aside. After about an hour of looking over at it and it bugging me I started on it and got the thing about halfway disassembled when I hear "What are you doing to my PDA?".

Yeah it was fun trying to explain but in the end I got it fixed and he was happy